Thursday, July 14, 2011

Edy's NEW! Limited Edition Black Raspberry Light Ice Cream Review

Ok, quick review time with the obligatory disclaimer: This treat was bought with a free coupon from the generous folks over at Edy's ( Dreyer's ).

You know, I was about to ping Edy's for downgrading Black Raspberry to a limited edition flavor. Like many of their other flavors, I thought they had knocked it down to slow churned status and then declared it a "NEW!" product. The truth is, I don't think they ever had it as a full time flavor. I even did some digging and I can't find any signs of it. Weird. I'm just so use to everyone having a raspberry flavor that it never even dawned on me they didn't. Well, let's see how this light ice cream is.

Hmm, looks fairly airy as you might expect. I dig myself a bowl and do my sampling thing. Shocking... I don't really like it. I know I tend to be vague when I don't like something to a mild degree, but this isn't good ice cream. A good black raspberry needs a nice clean taste and texture, and this has neither. I can forgive one, but not both, though it does earn a little forgiveness for being very low fat. I just can't recommend this. My wife concurred, though she helped me finish it anyway. If you are hoping for a raspberry fix, this ain't it.

I felt that it had almost a faint gummy texture. This seems fairly typical for dairy desserts, but I am not certain if this was listed as a "dairy dessert". Basically, in my opinion, it did not have the same texture as ice cream. Also, I could taste a hint of cream cheese flavoring. I don't believe that this product contains cream cheese, though. I love cream cheese and it was lower on the calorie scale so that is why I finished this.